It seems Gone with the Wind doesn't have the same hold on the American imagination it once did. The film has been a perennial television favorite for decades, long after its premiere at the Loew's Grand Theater in Atlanta, 1939. The epic classic has been dressed up in a 75th anniversary edition DVD box set and is enjoying another run at select movie theaters around the country. GWTW was a good bad book made into a good bad movie that rekindled the American imagination for the Deep South, ravished during the Civil War. It was kind of a War and Peace for Americans, a romance novel writ large set against the backdrop of war. It lacked the philosophical insights of Tolstoy's great novel but made up for it with a whirlwind of emotions best captured in this signature scene . Like the novel, the dialog was so far over the top that you can't help but laugh at many of the scenes, especially with the greatly inflated musical score. The Washington...